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  • Blogs

    February 7, 2012

    Louis Hampers: Prosecutors want former ER doc to serve prison time for Rx drug fraud

    Last month, defense attorneys for Louis Hampers filed a motion asking that the former doctor be sentenced to probation for the crime of writing phony prescriptions to feed his pill addiction. This week, prosecutors filed their own motion, arguing that he should instead be sentenced to the previously ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 14, 2011

    Medical marijuana: CDPHE's Dr. Chris Urbina on physician assistants, patient denials

    ​By mid-January, as many as 4,200 potential medical marijuana patients will be told they are as much to blame for a "fraudulent" MMJ application as the doctor who signed off on a physician assistant's evaluation of that patient. The punishment? Waiting six months before they can apply again fo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 17, 2011

    Medical Marijuana Enforcement Division says Full Spectrum Labs OK to open, FSL disagrees

    ​Last week, medical cannabis testing facility Full Spectrum Labs shut its doors indefinitely, citing a lack of a state license to operate. But that news came as a surprise to Medical Marijuana Enforcement Division spokeswoman Julie Postlethwait, who says the lab could have remained open.

  • Blogs

    October 10, 2011

    Medical marijuana: Full Spectrum Labs shutting doors until state license is issued

    Last week, we re-posted this month's Chronic-le feature story on high-CBD strains around Colorado, with our selections based on Full Spectrum Labs tests. But those might be the last results we get from Full Spectrum for a while. FSL announced last week that it's shutting down Octobert 14 until the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 23, 2011

    Radiation from Japanese nuclear paint found in Colorado: Health dept. says no need to panic

    ​Last week, the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment tried to counter media-fueled fears about radiation from the stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan creating health risks here. Today, that job just got more difficult. The CDPHE confirms that "minuscule" amounts of ... More >>

  • Calendar

    February 17, 2011

    Soup Is Good Food

    ​Last week, the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment tried to counter media-fueled fears about radiation from the stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan creating health risks here. Today, that job just got more difficult. The CDPHE confirms that "minuscule" amounts of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 24, 2010

    Plant Medicine Expo's Seth Ginsberg on the mainstreaming of medical marijuana

    Seth Ginsberg.​Yesterday, we heard from Law & Order Special Victims Unit star Richard Belzer about his participation in this weekend's Plant Medicine Expo and Healthcare Provider Conference. Belzer stressed that the event's focus would be on the medical uses of marijuana, not the weed lifestyl ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 14, 2010

    Tom Tancredo missing 2 gubernatorial forums, but organizers say they didn't exclude him

    Tom Tancredo.​Tom Tancredo won't be at today's Colorado Election 2010 Gubernatorial Candidate Forum at the University of Denver -- he had a scheduling conflict from the start. Nor will he be at a second forum, Putting Kids First, on Thursday. But the organizers of this second event say Tancred ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 5, 2010

    Blizzard craving? It's Miracle Treat Day at area Dairy Queen stores

    ​It doesn't take much to convince us to splurge on a Dairy Queen Blizzard -- Reese's, cookie dough, Snickers, whatever! -- but today there's even more incentive, because all participating Dairy Queens will donate a buck or more of the purchase price of every Blizzard to childrens' hospitals t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 30, 2010

    Swinger websites: Herby the Love Judge doesn't approve of them

    The Children's HospitalLouis Hampers.​In April, Denver Judge Herbert Galchinsky granted 9News reporter Deborah Sherman a permanent restraining order against Dr. Louis Hampers, the head of emergency medicine at The Children's Hospital in Aurora and the subject of this week's feature story, "Whe ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 25, 2010

    Denver Condoms -- for when you want to join the Mile High Club

    No glove, no Denver love.​Three Denver blogs to sample. Denver Egotist introduces Denver Condoms, an idea whose time has, er, come. Face the State's John Schroyer reports that based on RTD execs' salaries, the roads are paved in gold. A Mile High Mamas Q&A reveals growing pains at Children' ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 18, 2010

    Denver Health breaks ground on a new adolescent psych unit

    ​Denver Health broke ground this week on a four-story building that by late next year will be home to an adolescent psychiatric facility. Although the psych ward's new digs won't be a whole lot bigger, Denver Health officials say they will be a lot better. In terms of hard numbers, the facili ... More >>

  • Calendar

    March 25, 2010

    Powder to the People

    ​Denver Health broke ground this week on a four-story building that by late next year will be home to an adolescent psychiatric facility. Although the psych ward's new digs won't be a whole lot bigger, Denver Health officials say they will be a lot better. In terms of hard numbers, the facili ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 12, 2010

    Kenny Be's Friday Afternoon Club: Rep. Spencer Swalm and Nia Bender at Mel's Bar and Grill

    ​ "What I'd really like to do is propose a bill that would require the state to keep all of the babies delivered to unwed mothers in public hospitals, and sell them on the open adoption market. It's time for Colorado to turn the cycle of poverty into the cycle of profitability!"

  • Blogs

    December 18, 2009

    Just in time for the holidays -- a horrific child abuse story

    Bad things have happened to Crystal Eccleston's child.​This time of the year is all about family. But that's not always a good thing. Denver Police Department reps were called after an infant was checked into an area hospital with terrible injuries. Next step? DPD arrested the child's parents ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 27, 2009

    Tour Denver the DaVita way

    The announcement that DaVita, a healthcare giant specializing in kidney dialysis, is moving its corporate headquarters to the Denver area offers a rare bit of good economic news during a period filled with plenty of the opposite sort -- and judging by its website, execs at the firm understand that ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 11, 2008

    Bad health reports, good pancakes at Children's Hospital

    The 24/7 cafeteria at Children's Hospital has long been known for its pancakes, which survived the trip from the old facility in central Denver out to the new Children's campus in Aurora. Years ago, Westword columnist Marty Jones flipped over the flapjacks in his Consumed column; just ... More >>

  • Music

    July 26, 2007

    Velvet Revolver

    Libertad
    RCA

  • Calendar

    January 29, 2004

    Get the Beat

    Sondra Singer blends rhythm and words

  • News

    December 4, 2003

    The Centers of the Storm

    Are we having funds yet?

  • News

    June 12, 2003

    Critical Condition

    Denver Health nurses are ready to unionize to save their profession.

  • News

    January 30, 2003

    Give and Take

    The Oscar Hernandez saga demonstrates the benefits and risks of fundraising through the media.

  • News

    June 27, 2002

    A Healthy Paycheck

    Denver Health may cut services, but its execs won't feel the pain.

  • Goods & Services

    April 4, 2002

    Best Help for Parents Needing Sleep

    Dr. Barton Schmitt
    Children's Hospital

  • Goods & Services

    March 29, 2001

    Best Upscale Thrift Shop

    La Cache

  • Calendar

    March 29, 2001

    Best Indie Producer

    Mike Jourgensen

  • People & Places

    March 29, 2001

    Best Fundraising Gimmick

    2001 Denver Metro Firefighter Calendar

  • Music

    November 30, 2000

    Hit Pick

    Rocket Ajax

  • Best of Denver

    June 29, 2000

    Best free entertainment

    Lutheran Medical Center lobby

  • Best of Denver

    June 29, 2000

    Best charity gig by a bunch of drunks

    Buzz Bomber and the M-80s

  • Best of Denver

    June 29, 2000

    Best Sunday happy hour

    Andrews' Pub & Lounge

  • Best of Denver

    June 29, 2000

    Best service for pets

    Anesthesia-free teeth-cleaning clincs, Pet World

  • News

    October 7, 1999

    Waiting Room

    Colorado’s nurses are sick of a system that ruins careers over minor complaints.

  • News

    May 1, 1997

    The Poor Get Poorer

    More fallout from University Hospital's budget cuts: Clinics for the poor are now turning away patients.

  • News

    April 24, 1997

    Roll On, Columbia

    The nation's largest for-profit hospital chain is out to flatten its Denver competition. It's already reshaped the world of local health care.

  • News

    April 4, 1996

    Running Out of Patients

    Denver General gets ready to launch a downscale marketing campaign.

  • News

    March 7, 1996

    Alms for the Not-So-Poor

    A "nonprofit" hospital gets its lucrative office buildings taken off the tax rolls.

  • News

    August 23, 1995

    TOOTH OR CONSEQUENCES

    WHAT'S THE DRILL? AFTER A SEVEN-YEAR LEGAL BATTLE, THAT'S WHAT THESE FORMER STUDENTS WOULD LIKE TO KNOW.

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